Trouble Quotes - page 2

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. (Winston Churchill)
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Trouble shared is trouble halved. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. View quote
James Thurber
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. View quote
James Thurber
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. View quote
Thomas Paine
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. View quote
Robert Frost
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! View quote
Roland Barthes
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. (Henry Miller)
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble. View quote
George Washington
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. View quote
Earl Warren
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. View quote
Carl Jung
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. (Denis Diderot)
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be. View quote
Michael Ondaatje